Jackie Brown Back In UK Cinemas To Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Jackie Brown will return to UK cinemas to celebrate its 25th anniversary in September. The Quentin Tarantino film starring Pam Grier finds the eponymous protagonist caught between an arms dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) and the DEA agent (Michael Keaton) wanting to bring him to justice.

More than 200 cinemas across the UK & Ireland (plus select international territories) including Picturehouse, Vue, Odeon and BFI Southbank, will screen the cult crime hit from September 16. It will coincide with a major new retrospective at BFI Southbank called “Pam Grier: Foxy, Fierce and Fearless”, from 1 September – 4 October, programmed by film scholar Mia Mask.

Adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch from 1992, Tarantino was keen to pay homage to 1970s blaxploitation films and cast Grier in the main role having enjoyed her performances in some of the most significant blaxploitation films of the 1970s such as Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974).

The film is distinguished by the fact it is still the only film of Tarantino’s adapted from someone else’s work while also revitalising the careers of both Grier and co-star Robert Forster who would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

When Jackie Brown (Grier) is busted smuggling money for her arms dealer boss, Ordell Robbie (Jackson), agent Ray Nicolette (Keaton) and detective Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) want the flight attendant to help them bring down Robbie.

Facing jail time for not not co-operating or death for siding with the DEA, Brown decides instead to double-cross both parties and make off with the smuggled money. Meanwhile, she enlists the help of bondsman Max Cherry (Forster), a man who falls for her charms.

Jackie Brown is in UK and Irish cinemas from September 16. A full list of cinemas screening the film are available here.

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